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Gliwice
This entry is based on an article from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
Gliwice is a town in southern Poland in slaskie region.
- Population: 212,164 (1999).
Gliwice was a town of Germany (Gleiwitz), in the Prussian province
of Silesia, on the Klodnitz, and the railway between Oppeln and Cracow,
40 m. S.E. of the former town. Pop. (1875) 14,156; (1905) 61,324. It
possesses two Protestant and four Roman Catholic churches, a synagogue,
a mining school, a convent, a hospital, two orphanages, and
barracks. Gleiwitz is the centre of the mining industry of Upper
Silesia. Besides the royal foundry, with which are connected machine
manufactories and boilerworks, there are other foundries, meal mills and
manufactories of wire, gas pipes, cement and paper.
- B. Nietsche, Geschichte der Stadt Gleiwitz (1886)
- Seidel, Die königliche Eisengiesserei zu Gleiwitz (Berlin, 1896)
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